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Modern human status hierarchies are both larger and a lot more strict than natural ones that one finds in hunter-gatherers. For example status is explicitly represented e.g. by occupational prestige, income, educational qualifications etc. often within huge organizational or economic systems. Of course many of the ancient ways of organizing smaller hierarchies are nearly unchanged, e.g. the way people respect tall and strong men and also good looking people etc. | Modern human status hierarchies are both larger and a lot more strict than natural ones that one finds in hunter-gatherers. For example status is explicitly represented e.g. by occupational prestige, income, educational qualifications etc. often within huge organizational or economic systems. Of course many of the ancient ways of organizing smaller hierarchies are nearly unchanged, e.g. the way people respect tall and strong men and also good looking people etc. | ||
Men's hierarchies revolve more around the ability to extract resources, but also looks. | Men's hierarchies revolve more around the ability to extract resources, but also looks. Since men benefit from cooperation in resource extraction their intrasexual competition is more productive and cooperative than women's. | ||
Women's hierarchies revolve around looks and a reputation of loyalty and other trait that men desire in women. Women's intrasexual competition hence mainly consists in destroying one another's reputation as well as gossiping about looks. | Women's hierarchies revolve around looks and a reputation of loyalty and other trait that men desire in women. Women's intrasexual competition hence mainly consists in destroying one another's reputation as well as gossiping about looks. | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[Hypergamy]] | * [[Hypergamy]] | ||